One memoir recounting this period was written by t
One memoir recounting this period was written by the author of "The Red Carnation," poet and schoolteacher Louise Michel. Several people who appeared in a photograph with a fallen statue by the destroyed Vendôme column during this period were later tracked down; many others involved in this event were executed at the Wall of the Federalists, and thousands were imprisoned on the island of New Caledonia. It attempted to exchange several of its prisoners for Louis Auguste (*) Blanqui, and, after actions like seizure of cannons on the Butte of Montmartre and burning of Hotel de Ville, the "Bloody Week" led to its defeat by Adolphe Thiers's opposition. For 10 points, name this 1871 Marxist uprising that briefly took over the capital of the newly formed French Third Republic.
One memoir recounting this period was written by the author of "The Red Carnation," poet and schoolteacher Louise Michel.
{Second} Paris Commune [or Communards]